16-05-2024, 08:51 AM
I do enjoy the leather care bit, it is almost like painting - with all the colours of the polishes and the smearing and rubbing and then the brushing. As rewarding as polishing silver but not quite as boring, lol. There are some housework tasks that have a very pleasing aspect to them, ironing old embroidered linens for a Christmas table, or washing a crystal wine glass so it absolutely sparkles. Enhancing lovely things, those are the nice bits at the edges of the mundane every day.
I thought of you popeye, a day or so back, when trolling through the antiques section of TM I came across a listing for Tupperware catalogues, it is fascinating sometimes, listings contain hidden treasures. I think that is what keeps me coming back, the potential of something wonderful. Like yesterday, coming across a listing for a Haeger piece, a glorious long necked jug shaped ceramic in a deep blue green glaze. I would have ransacked the savings account if it had been reasonably priced but it wasn't. And it was pick up only, and the other side of Auckland is too far for the scoot, and just as well. I had great fun though linking the auction to the Haeger collectors group on farcebook, and the Americans were suitably gobsmacked at the details, interesting conversations were had. The internet is a fantastic way of boosting international understanding, even if it is only around the vast national differences in value of a smallish bit of old china...
I thought of you popeye, a day or so back, when trolling through the antiques section of TM I came across a listing for Tupperware catalogues, it is fascinating sometimes, listings contain hidden treasures. I think that is what keeps me coming back, the potential of something wonderful. Like yesterday, coming across a listing for a Haeger piece, a glorious long necked jug shaped ceramic in a deep blue green glaze. I would have ransacked the savings account if it had been reasonably priced but it wasn't. And it was pick up only, and the other side of Auckland is too far for the scoot, and just as well. I had great fun though linking the auction to the Haeger collectors group on farcebook, and the Americans were suitably gobsmacked at the details, interesting conversations were had. The internet is a fantastic way of boosting international understanding, even if it is only around the vast national differences in value of a smallish bit of old china...